'Awesome' Applesauce Cake {Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting}
This Autumn inspired 'Awesome' Applesauce Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting recipe is so moist, apple-iciously bliss, homey, cozy and did I mention MAGNIFICENT?? I'll take 2!!
Servings: 9 Servings
Calories:
Ingredients
'Awesome' Applesauce Cake
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 stick unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ cups unsweetened applesauce
- Optional: 1/2 cup walnuts and/or 1/2 cup raisins
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
- 5 oz cream cheese softened
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and butter an 8- or 9-inch square cake pan. (I've used a 9 inch pan and an angel food cake pan)
Applesauce Cinnamon Cake
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Beat softened butter, brown sugar, and vanilla with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, then beat in applesauce.
- At low speed, mix in flour mixture until just combined, then stir in walnuts or raisins if using.
- Spread batter evenly in pan and bake until golden-brown and a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes.
- Cool in pan 15 minutes. Run a knife around edge of cake to loosen, then invert onto a plate.
- Re-invert cake onto a rack to cool completely.
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
- Beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla with an electric mixer at high speed until fluffy.
- Slowly add in confectioners sugar and cinnamon into cream cheese mixture, then beat at medium speed until incorporated.
- Spread frosting over top of cooled cake.
- Keep frosted cake in fridge.
Notes
- If you would like to make these into cupcakes, bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees and double the frosting if you want to frost them generously.
- If baking the cake in advance, you can wrap it and freeze it until the day you need it. Leave it out to defrost and frost it up to a day in advance.